Hulhule Island Hotel Male

... Trivandrim to head to North of India where it is 41 degrees at the minute min sounds hot especially when Cocoa Island is a manageable 30 at the minute - hey we are not complaining but the 60 sunblock is definitely out!! Take care everyone i saw the weather is pretty good in London so am sure everyone is getting excited about a good summer miss everyone lots keep the updates coming and speak to you all soon. lots of Love Ash & Alex xxx

... a za par minut jsme byli na Helengeli. Ostrov je to prtavouckej, asi tak 500x70m a stoji tu 25 dvojdomecku (my mame cislo 13), restaurace, bar, knihovna, obchudek, lazne a centrum potapeni. Na jednom konci ostrova jsou jeste domecky pro zamestnance. Cely ostrov je max. tak 1m vysoky, takze je to v podstate jedna velka plaz, uprostred porostla zeleni. Je tu dost mista pro vsechny, takze na plazi jsme povetsinou sami, obcas se objevi sousedi. 90% hostu jsou Svycari. Radost ...

... coming up.... I was just walking over to the dessert bit (serves me right for being greedy!) and something went thud right beside me, looked around and there was a bloody grass snake sitting there which had just fallen from the thatched roof. Well I almost died!! Think I maybe had a minor heart attack! It was tiny but that's not the point, it was a bloody snake!! It quickly scurried away out of the restaurant and that ...

... were booked into an alternative island. The Seaplane journey was spectacular - blue skies, crystal clear water, gazing at the stunning scenery of tiny little islands dotted ...

... stretching out into the sea from the island with the watter villas sitting off the side. At one end of the island they have also added a new restaurant. This provides the same service as the original restaurant, but negates the need to walk half way across the island every meal time. Despite the size of the island the large number of guests it can accommodate the feeling is still very remote. You don't feel ...

... make it look so easy and I am sure it is far from that for the vast majority. Andy seared the tasty tuna, served with salad and sweet corn. As my Dad would say, in an altered version for the circumstance, it was the best meal on the Arabian Sea. All in all, it's a great cruise package. I never would have expected the mirror like water in the middle of the Arabian Sea to be dotted all of the sudden with 20 chilled out pilot whales meandering around. Then, the food. Gourmet ...

... agrees to everything, so open ended questions are essential or you end up down any road you suggest. So, I finally end up at a Fuji camera shop and they say they can burn my pics to DVD for me (DVD can hold thousands of pics vs. a few hundred on one CD). An adorable 16 year old girl, Shivana, helps me. She is so sweet, professional, thorough checking everything and just overall a superstar helpful gal. The process to burn the pics takes a long time and in meantime I ask what a ...

... we tried again and whether it was the presence of Doug or a discussion with the manager, we went out on the boat again. The kids (and I) had absolutely no problem keeping up and for the most part were ahead of everyone. The reef was spectacular and we saw a sea turtle swimming along. The kids wanted to go out again in the afternoon so they went on the boat again with Doug. I decided to relax and have a snooze. Jesse went without a life jacket so ended up ...

... here - in office and the same family for 28 years or so and, in his opinion, holding "resources" in off-shore accounts for his own benefit. This fellow's home was damaged by the Tsunami but was not one of the ones chosen for rebuilding. He moved his family to Male and he has a shop (like everyone else). The government chooses which families get new homes and the Red Cross follows their direction. Melissa, Jesse and I did accompany the Red Cross on an day trip to a remote island to do a ...

Hahahaha.... WOW! Here I am in the Maldives. Having a marvelous time. Visiting great friends who I have only seen once in the past 6 years. And they have a new addition. An absolutely gorgeous 10 month old baby! Little Neve. She is so sweet. Rewind: I finally got a flight up to good old Bangkok and I had a great night with Brodie. We ended up in some strange strange pool hall. Random but heaps of fun. Back at my familiar hostel I met a lovely fellow ...